Scripture: Genesis 221:1-14
The story from Genesis is about Abraham taking his son Isaac up to the mountain to be sacrificed. But Abraham being willing to sacrifice his son is craziness!
Who has been rendered expendable in our zeal for God? When we’re driven by a desire to be faithful to God and go too far, real people pay the price. Typically, the most vulnerable among us: widows, orphans, immigrants, women, and children in general, captives, disabled people, queer people, all sorts of people who are pushed to the edges of our society. And when God sees these people bound to altars that we’ve constructed, God moves on their behalf. When faith takes us too far God provides the means for us to be faithfully generative.
We have to face the fact that zeal to be faithful to God will not override God’s care and compassion for even the least among us.
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